Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him! why should we! Littell's Living Age - Page 921861Full view - About this book
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...that might not be! What did the winds and the sea-birds say Of the cruel cuptain who sailed away ?— Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered...and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead! Through the street, on either side, Up flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongucd spinsters, old... | |
| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1888 - 354 pages
...' Sink or swim ! Brag of your catch of fish again l ' And off he sailed through the fog and rain ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered...and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead." For, though the sauve qui pent rings far too often on the fisherman's field of battle when wind and... | |
| Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1888 - 348 pages
...Sink or swim ! Brag of your catch of fish again ! ' And off he sailed through the fog and rain ! Ohl Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marbleliead." For, though the sauve qui pent rings far too often on the fisherman's field of battle... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - 1888 - 396 pages
...Бас Brag of your cateh of fish again ! ' And offhe smled through the fog and . Old Floyd Ircson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marhlehcad. ram. ecp in d; c Аaи П That wreck shall lie forevermore. Mother and sister, w;fe and... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck! Hate me and curse me, — I only dread The hand of God and the face of the dead! " Said old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feuthered and carried iu a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1888 - 570 pages
...prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart. Tarred and feathered and carried IB a cart By the women of Marblehead 1 Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop like a rained-on... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me — I only dread The hand of God, and the face of the dead !" Said old Floyd Ireson,...feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Through the street, on either side, Up flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old... | |
| Thomas William Herringshaw - 1890 - 1032 pages
...cut him loose. And gave him a cloak to hide him in. And left him alone with his shame and sin. Poor Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart. Tarred and feathered...and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead? LOCAL AND NATIONAL POETS OF AMERICA. THE BAREFOOT BOY. JOHN GKEF.NI.KAF WHITTIEB. Blessings on thee.... | |
| Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pages
...wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck ! Hate me and curse me — I only dread The hand of God, and the face of the dead !" Said old Floyd Ireson,...feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Through the street, on either side, Up flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1891 - 258 pages
...(Halcluyt's Voyages, II. 21 (tr. of original statute, which see in Rymer's "Fœdera" [éd. 1727], I. 65).) Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried In a cart By the women of Marblehead ! Whatier, Skipper Ireson's Ride. tar2t (tar), vt [Early mod. E. also tarr, tarre ; < ME. ierren, a... | |
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